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James Legge’s (1815-1897) translations of the Confucian classics have long been venerated as the peak and standard of sinological translation, with little attention being paid to the traces of missionary and orientalist discourse within these awesome tomes. This book subjects Legge’s Confucian translations to a postcolonial perspective, with a view of uncovering the subtle workings of colonialist ideology in the seemingly innocent act of translation. Combining close textual study with rich contextual information, the author uses the example of Legge’s two versions of the Zhongyong to illustrate two distinctive stages of his sinological scholarship: missionary orientalism during his Hong Kong years (1843-1873), culminating in the production of The Chinese Classics, and academic orientalism during his Oxford professorship (1876-1897), as reflected in his Sacred Books of China. Legge grew hermeneutically more open in his life-long encounter with the Confucian texts, yet his translation did not entirely transcend the colonialist discourse of the day. This in-depth case study highlights the importance of taking an ethical stance in cross-cultural translation, and has much to offer to postcolonial translation studies.

Die Reihe Welten Ostasiens der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft stellt reprasentative The aim of the series Worlds of East Asia of the Swiss Asia Society is to publish high-quality, La serie Mondes de l'Extreme-Orient de la Societe Suisse-Asie publie des recherches de Arbeiten aus der facettenreichen akademischen Forschung vor. Sie nimmt Studien zu den representative work issuing from academic research on all aspects of East Asia. It comprises, qualite representatives de la recherche academique sur les cultures et societes de l'Asie ostasiatischen Kulturen und Gesellschaften in Gegenwart und Vergangenheit in den and receives, studies on present-day and historical East Asian cultures and societies covering orientale. Elle propose des etudes dans des domaines varies comme l'art, la litterature, et la pensee, anciens ou modernes, ainsi que des traductions et interpretations de sources. Bereichen Kunst, Literatur und Denken sowie Ubersetzungen und Interpretationen von the fields of art, literature and thought as well as translations and interpretations of important Quellentexten auf. sources.

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Contents: Orientalism, Postcolonialism and Postcolonial translation studies ? James Legge and His Confucian Translation ? The Zhongyong as a Central Confucian Text ? Translation as Missionary Orientalism: Legge’s 1861 Version of the Zhongyong ? Translation as Academic Orientalism: Legge’s 1885 Version of the Zhongyong ? Beyond Colonialist Translation.

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